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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER III
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And what is happiness in her mind?
Certainly it is not a good to be conquered--a state of mind wrested from life by tackling and mastering its varied experiences, the _end_, not the beginning, of a great journey.

Too often it is that of the modern Uneasy Woman--the attainment of something _outside_ of herself.

She visualizes it, as possessions, as ease, a "good time," opportunities for self-culture, the exclusive devotion of the mate to her.

Rarely does she understand that happiness in her undertaking depends upon the wisdom and sense with which she conquers a succession of hard places--calling for readjustment of her ideas and sacrifice of her desires.

All this she must discover for herself.


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